#notion

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#believers #calmer #christian #creates #decline

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#balancing #cling #competing #disturbed #economy

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#bit #dated #i #idea #life

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#goal #limit #line #most #notion

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#comfort #equivalent #general #notion #particular

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. ↗

— William Nicholson

#class #compassion #lives #merit #middle

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#cluttered #curious #get #going #i

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. ↗

— Jean Paul

#breathe #children #conscience #evil #formed

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#cannot #everybody #existence #express #i

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in. ↗

— Ann Richards

#had #i #knew #notion #pretty